Cisco Checks In On Its Vision for Networking In an Application-Centric World

Just more than a year and a half ago, Cisco shared its vision for the application-centric future of networking. Now, Cisco Senior Vice President Soni Jiandani says the future of networking is here. She reflected recently on how Cisco is executing on its software-defined networking (SDN) strategy, including developments in open programmability through Cisco Open NX-OS.

Cisco’s SDN strategy focuses on driving choice in automation and programmability through open API-based solutions, broad ecosystems for programmable networks and fabrics, and a turnkey approach for the company’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI). In a recent blog post, Jiandani looks at how ACI creates value for customers and partners, and how customer response has shaped Cisco’s latest software release for ACI. The latest ACI innovations are delivered in three primary areas:

Cisco’s network innovation efforts also include providing open programmability through Open NX-OS, a rich software suite built on a Linux foundation that exposes APIs, data models, and programmatic constructs.

The complimentary book, “Programmability and Automation with Cisco NX-OS,” explores Open NX-OS and many of the tools and options it pro​vides. The book examines the drivers for net​work automation, the fun​da​mental supporting technologies, and the many new capabilities now avail​able to net​work infrastructures. It also provides real-world use cases that can be immediately utilized for a successful ​transition to safer, more efficient, and more repeat​able operations.

Read Jiandani’s full post to learn more about customer-driven innovations to ACI. And for more detailed technical information on Open NX-OS programmability, check out Cisco’s Open NX-OS developer site. Among other practical information, it provides basic Open NX-OS configuration use cases such as interface config, VLAN config and management, and OSPF config.

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